The Renaissance of emotion: Understanding affect in Shakespeare and his contemporaries - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 0719090784 ISBN 13: 9780719090783

Casa editrice: Manchester Univ Pr, 2015

Riassunto

This collection of essays offers a major reassessment of the meaning and significance of emotional experience in the work of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Recent scholarship on early modern emotion has relied on a medical-historical approach, resulting in a picture of emotional experience that stresses the dominance of the material, humoral body. The Renaissance of emotion seeks to redress this balance by examining the ways in which early modern texts explore emotional experience from perspectives other than humoral medicine.

The chapters in the book seek to demonstrate how open, creative and agency-ridden the experience and interpretation of emotion could be. Taken individually, the chapters offer much-needed investigations into previously overlooked areas of emotional experience and signification; taken together, they offer a thorough re-evaluation of the cultural priorities and phenomenological principles that shaped the understanding of the emotive self in the early modern period. The Renaissance of emotion will be of particular interest to students and scholars of Shakespeare and Renaissance literature, the history of emotion, theatre and cultural history, and the history of ideas.

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Richard Meek is Lecturer in English at the University of Hull

Erin Sullivan is Lecturer and Fellow in the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham

Richard Meek is Lecturer in English at the University of Hull

Erin Sullivan is Lecturer and Fellow in the Shakespeare Institute at the University of Birmingham

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This collection of essays offers a major reassessment of the meaning and significance of emotional experience in the work of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Recent scholarship on early modern emotion has relied on a medical-historical approach, resulting in a picture of emotional experience that stresses the dominance of the material, humoral body. While such scholarship has been important in foregrounding questions related to historical phenomenology and embodiment, it has obscured the extent to which other intellectual and creative frameworks – including religion, philosophy, rhetoric and drama – also shaped cultural beliefs about emotion in the period.

The Renaissance of emotion seeks to redress this balance by examining the ways in which Shakespeare and his contemporaries explored emotional experience from perspectives other than humoral medicine. Bringing together an international group of established and emerging scholars, the volume demonstrates how open, creative and agency-ridden the experience and interpretation of early modern emotion could be. Taken individually, the chapters offer much-needed investigations into previously overlooked areas of emotional experience and signification; taken together, they offer a thorough re-evaluation of the cultural priorities and phenomenological principles that shaped the understanding of the emotive self in the early modern period.

The Renaissance of emotion will be of particular interest to students and scholars of Shakespeare and Renaissance literature, the history of emotion, theatre and cultural history, and the history of ideas.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Manchester Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0719090784
• ISBN 13: 9780719090783
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 276
• Redattore: Meek Richard, Sullivan Erin
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• Persona responsabile: non disponibile